Credit: The Associated Press

A helicopter crash in a remote, wooded area of northeastern Pennsylvania claimed the lives of five people, state police said Sunday July 28, 2013.The crash apparently happened Saturday night after radar and communication contact with the helicopter was lost, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Credit: The Associated Press

Bobby Zampetti, a local pilot from Tunkhannock, Pa., talks about aviation near the scene of a helicopter crash Sunday July 28, 2013, that took the lives of five people.

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NOXEN, Pa. — Severe thunderstorms and heavy fog were reported around the time a helicopter crashed in northeastern Pennsylvania on Saturday, killing all five people on board, including a child, officials said Monday.